I have been slack. But I am here now. My day started badly with that old tiredness-that-you-can't-shake feeling and an overactive brain that wouldn't stay focused on the task at hand. So I brokered a deal, "if you do these two boring things, the afternoon can be spent tumbling through the internet looking for inspiration". It conceded and away I went. And I fell back in love. He's a Norwegian artist that goes by the name of Rune Gineriussen. He creates installations in nature using foreign, man made objects. A lot of the time these objects create a relationship, for example - two chairs staring out to sea.
Or they mimic other living things like crabs as seen here below
I think my favourite thing about Rune, and why I am in love with him is the poetry in his art. The fact that he creates fantasy in real life. Takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary. That's most evident in his work with lamps in the forest.
Artworks like this give me the same feeling as beautiful images like the spiders that have coated the trees in Pakistan in wake of the flooding, pictured below.
at any rate, go check out more of Rune Guneriussen at his website http://www.runeguneriussen.no/index.html
The only thing I wish I could change about his work is that, much like Andy Goldsworthy, the work they create is so remote it is usually only seen through photography. I would love to wander through the forest of lamps at night and see the colours shine of the snow. Can you imagine walking through a forest at night and seeing a light from afar, going to investigate, and finding that? I think it would be the same kind of magic that reading Narnia gave you when you were a kid.
